NEW YORK -- The symbiosis between Cornell's Ithaca and New York City campuses is never more apparent than in June. As quiet settles over the Ithaca campus and driving on East Avenue no longer is a white-knuckle affair, the "CU-NYC campus" is bursting at the seams with Cornell students participating in internships and cooperatives.
Cornell Information Technologies (CIT) has announced its newest service for the campus community: Time Away Responder. If you've been waiting for this service, it's here. Time Away Responder (TAR) tells people who e-mail you that you are away (perhaps on business, vacation, or medical leave) and that you'll respond to them once you return.
NEW YORK (JUNE 16, 2005) -- In a successful procedure today at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/The Allen Pavilion, a robot for the first time functioned as an independent assistant to the surgical team by handing and retrieving surgical instruments. The robot performed all of its assigned functions properly, a key validation of this important new technology and a dramatic demonstration of the potential for automation in the operating room.The robot, known as the Penelopeª Surgical Instrument Server (SIS), uses innovative technology to identify surgical instruments, hand them to the surgeon, retrieve them and put them back in place. This new robot was designed and developed by Robotic Surgical Tech, Inc. (RST) of New York. The procedure performed was the removal of a benign tumor on the forearm.
President Jeffrey Lehman sat calmly in his office on a sunny afternoon, three days after his stunning State of the University address on June 11, when he announced he would be relinquishing the Cornell presidency at the end of this month. During an interview with the Cornell Chronicle, he observed, "Cornell is a community that is working terrifically well. It is oriented toward a set of goals that are important and endurable." He was firm in stating that the fundamental goals and academic strategies being pursued by deans, faculty and staff will not change with his departure.
Chairman of the Board of Trustees Peter Meinig and Provost Biddy Martin made statements to the Cornell community to assure continuity, stability and a smooth transition to Hunter Rawlings' interim presidency.
When Bill Vanneman '31 heard that the Class of 2000 was having trouble meeting expenses for its first reunion, he did not hesitate to lend a hand -- and a buck.
Speaking to Cornell alumni visiting their alma mater, Cornell President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes talked about a reunion with the terra mater, mother Earth. Presenting the annual Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecture June 10 during Reunion Weekend, he urged responsible social policies for the planet.
James Joyce was a "bizarre, often infuriating, but irresistibly engaging genius" who today is one of the most highly regarded 20th-century writers in English, Professor M.H. Abrams told a gathering of alumni and friends.
A supermarket checkout computer can identify thousands of different items by scanning the tiny barcode printed on the package. New technology developed at Cornell could make it just as easy to identify genes, pathogens, illegal drugs and other chemicals of interest by tagging them with color-coded probes made out of synthetic tree-shaped DNA. A research group headed by Dan Luo, Cornell assistant professor of biological engineering, has created "nanobarcodes" that fluoresce under ultraviolet light in a combination of colors that can be read by a computer scanner or observed with a fluorescent light microscope.
The walls are up, the roof is on and the summer crew of Cornell's Solar Decathlon Team is working hard to finish its fully functional, self-sufficient, solar-powered house. Scheduled for completion by the end of June, the only solar-powered house from an Ivy League school to enter the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) international Solar Decathlon competition will be moved to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in time for the Oct. 7 to 16 competition.